Acne Pimples - Little Harbingers of Health?

In 2001, after comparing approximately 150 acne medications, a team at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is still clueless as to the best method of acne treatment.

Now if the doctors and researchers can’t figure it out, how are we expected to? One researcher has the answer - determine the message behind your pimples.

An efficient acne treatment has remained elusive up until now because the deeper meanings (the cause of acne pimples) behind the skin condition are too typically neglected or even unexamined.

It’s not just about what’s happening on top of your skin, but the health of your body within. This is why I talk so much, and am always reading up about system detoxification.

Those pimples on your face act as little harbingers from your body to indicate what’s really going on inside. And acne breakouts are often the message of toxins in our systems.

At any rate, a report titled “Acne Messages” goes deep into the topic of the messages of pimples, perhaps more than you’d like to read. But one thing is clear - healthy skin starts on the inside.

Acne Prone Skin - Basic Skin Care for Your Face

If you think you’re the only one battling acne or that no one has as many pimples as you do, you’re wrong. There is always someone else who has a harder struggle with blemishes than you do. But there are a few things you can do to help keep pimples under control.

Here are a few top tips to more beautiful skin…

Your skin, being the body’s largest organ, is always mending, growing and changing to healthy our needs and to keep us hardy. In fact, you shed dead skin cells constantly. This constant loss means that every 7 years or so, your skin has replaced itself entirely.

To aid your skin in this delicate balance, be sure to wash your face twice daily with a gentle cleanser and rinse well. Rinsing thoroughly is actually even more important than the actual cleansing as residue, sweat and other pollutants can remain on your skin without proper rinsing.

An additional way to take care of sensitive facial skin is to make sure you wash your hair regularly. Your hair, to remain healthy releases oils continuously - oils that could transfer onto your face and clog skin’s pores.

What to Do When Acne Solutions Don’t Work

Virtually all the acne treatments bought over the counter just mask the symptoms of acne. They do very little to correct the real cause of acne.

Unless you can correct the cause of acne and prevent more acne blemishes from developing, acne will return again and again. It’s a vicious cycle.

This is why acne sufferers carry on purchasing a variety of acne treatments month after month, year after year, and feel as though the battle can never be won.

Sometimes the medications and solutions make the acne condition worse. This happens because some acne treatments contain harsh chemicals - if your skin is sensitive (as it should be) it reacts with itching, scaling, flaking, peeling or general dryness.

If you really wish to get rid of your acne and achieve long-term acne free skin, you need to investigate the root of the problem. Take it inside, instead of just treating the exterior signs of acne. It’s time for an internal acne solution - where the toxins that cause acne flare ups begin.

Acne is largely external feedback to a larger problem inside your body. Of course hormones and other factors contribute to acne, but toxins in your system make any hormonal or genetic acne worse to the nth degree.

There are a number of ways to flush the toxins out of your body as a solution to acne prone skin. Detoxification of the liver and kidneys, drinking more water, herbal cleansing are just a few ways.

What have you got to lose by trying it? Just a few 100 zits over the course of your lifetime!

Dirty skin gets pimples - Not!

Dirt on your skin does not cause pimples. Your changing hormones do.

While your body goes through growth changes affecting hormones, it often creates extra oil which becomes blocked in your pores and turns to pimples.

Why?

Because that extra oil traps bacteria close to the skin, and aggravates the pores causing either blackheads or whiteheads. Try squeezing under those conditions - bacteria laden - and you’ll only make things worse and risk scarring your face for life.

If your acne is quite bad, you may have a form of acne called Acne Roseaca, which may cause your face to look flushed (redness). These flushes can be set off by certain foods (much like an allergic hive). If you think you suffer with Acne Roseaca, you’ll have to do some testing with your food intake to see what ’sets’ off the outbreaks.

Many doctors now prescribe antibiotics to control acne breakouts of all severities. These work the same way as over the counter medicated gels or creams (ie. Benzoyl peroxide), but they are taken orally.

Wash, but don’t scrub! ing your face regularly is a good idea because it helps remove dead skin cells, excess oil, and bacteria from your skin’s surface, but scrubbing your skin too hard can dry out, irritate the top layer of your facial skin, and make acne worse.